This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...descendants of the Africans, and the Indians are descendants of the aborig'ines. When a whole is put for the part, or the part for a whole; a genus for the species, or the species for a genus; a singular for a plural, or a plural for a singular, --the figure is called a synecdoche. Sometimes one article is improperly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...descendants of the Africans, and the Indians are descendants of the aborig'ines. When a whole is put for the part, or the part for a whole; a genus for the species, or the species for a genus; a singular for a plural, or a plural for a singular, --the figure is called a synecdoche. Sometimes one article is improperly put for another. A pronoun is a part of speech used for a noun. A violet is an emblem of modesty. The profligate man is seldom or nover found to be tho good husband, the good father, or tho beneficent neigbor. He received only tho fourth part of the estate. A winding stairs led us to the Senate Chamber. A flight of, etc. Tho child was not a threo weeks old when it died. The Jews returned to their country after a seventy years captivity in Babylon.--a captivity of seventy--The ancients supposed tho fire, the air, the earth, and the water, to be the elements of all other material things. Drunkenness makes a man ol the brightest parts the common jest of the meanest clown. The original signification of knave was a boy.--Webster's Spelling-Book. A librarian is the person who has charge of a library.--Id. The work is designed for persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries.--Preface of Murray's Grammar. The violation of this rule never fails to displease a reader.--Blair's Rhetoric. Incorrect: pine here denotes all, or the species; and therefore the should be used before it. Tree refers to the class generally, and therefore no article should be used before it. (Repeat, of the general Observation, only what is applicable to the example which you are correcting.) Obs. 2.--A should be used before consonant sounds. (IT long, eu, w, o in one, and y articulated with a vowel after it, have each a consonant sound.) An should be used before vowe...
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